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dundermuffl1non Too much of their wealth in one stock? We built a startup to help

Note:I'm associated with the company. Happy to answer questions if it is of interest. Our website is at https://usecache.com.

dundermuffl1non Surfactants safely take down mosquitoes without using insecticides

Bleach is not a surfactant.

dundermuffl1non Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF

You must not have walked outside in Phoenix - you can't walk a block in that weather.

dundermuffl1non Waymo's collision avoidance testing

Seems like something I'd expect CNBC to say, not Hacker News.

dundermuffl1non Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources

https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=could+you+explain+how+the+...

Compared to ChatGPT, I found this answer severely lacking.

dundermuffl1non Meta Quest Pro

*nearly, just $650B away at this point.

dundermuffl1non OnlyFans creator stalked and had sex with Meta employees to reinstate Instagram

Being a "creator" or "influencer" has pervaded our cultural ethos so deeply, you'd be in the minority for assuming that it's the creator of Onlyfans or that all of Instagram had to be reinstated.

These are popular consumer brands, and colloquialism would prefer their "insta" or "instagram", rather than "instagram profile".

dundermuffl1non Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

Most of your response treats the service and its flaws as an engineering problem, whereas the ramifications in the real world aren't something Facebook gets to absolve itself from. They need to own the problem completely. If they can't solve the issue through engineering, it is their responsibility to hire hundreds of thousands of moderators.

dundermuffl1non Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President

Seems like most of the responses ignore the fact that there's actual value creation in every other market, that is completely lacking with doge. It's a joke with no real-world utility.

dundermuffl1non Doge Branded as Ponzi by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President

Seems like a narrow understanding of a ponzi scheme based on a particular execution of the concept.

I think Doge could still be correctly branded a ponzi scheme, since the returns for an investor is essentially tied to the number of suckers that buy into it after them. An early investor can take a "structured payout" by selling off the asset once the hype-cycle is creating more and more suckers who buy into the idea.

The fact that it was a joke has been diluted from the mass media, mostly due to irresponsible messaging by idiots like Elon.

dundermuffl1non Tesla Engineer Says Musk Overstated Tesla Autopilot Reality

Work at Waymo. Know lots of folks at Cruise. This is not reflective of the general outlook that most engineers have.

dundermuffl1non The Meltdown of Ample Hills

TLDR: they didn't do much math on the revenues and expenses.

Even with a product that's an outright winner, it is hard to be successful if you do not have basic financial sense.

dundermuffl1non Atrium lays off lawyers, pivots to tools

Wrong. Apple sells its software for an extremely high margin already.

When you buy Apple hardware, you are locked in to use Apple software and nothing else. A hardware vendor like LG/Oppo/Xiaomi would rely on Android, a commodity software, and thus, have very little pricing power against its competitors. Even though the technical specs of these phones might be better than the iPhone, they would struggle to sell for half the price.

The software lock is further amplified by those custom chips that are used across the Apple ecosystem. You're likely to pay exorbitant prices for the software on MacBook and iPad as well.

Remember, Apple usually doesn't touch a single phone throughout the manufacturing process (Most of the components are manufactured by third-party vendors squeezed into razor-thin margins). After paying these vendors off, they get to turn around and sell the same hardware for $600-650 more on the market. That wouldn't have lasted if they had licensed iOS out, their pricing power would be severely diminished.